Adventure Engineering: A Creativity-Based, Design-Centered Approach to Secondary School & Introductory Level Undergraduate Education

显然有必要吸引、吸引和留住最有创造力、最有才华和最聪明的年轻学者从事工程工作，然而，仔细观察学生对工程教育的洗礼就会发现主要问题。中小学教育中缺乏正规的工程学，加上大学新生流失率高，这表明许多聪明的学生没有实现工程学职业生涯。冒险工程提供了一个框架，其中所有的工程学科都被纳入到基于冒险的场景和障碍的设计解决方案中。冒险工程旨在通过激动人心的、精心开发的工程挑战，让未来中小学教育水平的教师与本科生沉浸在多学科工程的广阔舞台上。通过培养激励、无威胁、以团队合作为基础的环境，冒险工程旨在吸引和留住工程专业的高质量学生，包括女性和少数族裔。这项概念验证提案涉及由工程学院和教育学院教职员工组成的工作组开发冒险工程，NSF资助的俄克拉何马州教师培训中心特别参与。一系列冒险障碍需要通过应用科学和数学原理的多学科工程解决方案，被仔细地贯穿到现有的中学和本科新生水平的课程中。发展需要工程、教育和中学教职员工和学生的协同。职前中学教师将接受采用冒险工程学的培训。为了探索它对学生的有效性，在概念验证阶段，冒险工程在中学和本科教育中被实施和评估。

There is a clear need to attract, engage and retain the most creative, talented and intelligent young scholars for careers in engineering, however, a closer look at the baptism of students into engineering education reveals major problems. The lack of formal engineering presence in primary and secondary school education coupled with high freshman attrition in college reveals that many bright students are not realizing engineering careers. Adventure Engineering provides a framework wherein all disciplines of engineering are incorporated into design solutions to adventure-based scenarios and obstacles. Adventure Engineering is proposed to immerse future teachers of primary- and secondary-levels of education with undergraduate students in the broad arena of multidisciplinary engineering through exciting, carefully developed, engineering challenges. By fostering a motivating, non-threatening, teamwork-based environment, Adventure Engineering aims to attract and retain quality students to engineering, including women and minorities. This proof-of-concept proposal involves Adventure Engineering development by a working group of College of Engineering and College of Education faculty, with special participation from the NSF-funded Oklahoma Teacher Enhancement Center. A series of adventure obstacles requiring multidisciplinary engineering solutions through the application of science and mathematical principles are carefully threaded into existing secondary school and undergraduate freshman level curriculum. Development involves the synergism of engineering, education, and secondary school faculty and students. Preservice secondary school teachers will be trained to adopt Adventure Engineering. To explore its effectiveness on students, Adventure Engineering is implemented and assessed in both secondary school and undergraduate education during the proof-of-concept phase.